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Editorial: Boycott not best response to Obama's speech

Late last month, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sent a letter to school principals across the country reminding them that President Barack Obama would be delivering a televised address to students across the country Tuesday.

In the letter, Duncan notes the president will use the speech to "challenge students to work hard, set educational goals and take responsibility for their learning. He also will call for shared responsibility and commitment on the part of students, parents and educators to ensure that every child in every school receives the best education possible so that they can compete in the global economy for good jobs and live rewarding and productive lives as American citizens."

In conjunction with the letter, the federal Department of Education has suggested ways teachers might use the speech for classroom lessons. Suggestions for students in prekindergarten through sixth grade include asking students to imagine being president, thinking about what they would say and, after the speech, considering whether the president's words made them want to take any action. Suggestions for older students are in a similar vein.

Duncan's letter, and the complete set of suggestions for classroom activities, are available on the Web at www.ed.gov.

The speech itself will be broadcast live at noon Tuesday at www.WhiteHouse.gov and also will be live on cable TV's C-SPAN.

Perhaps predictably enough, the announcement of the president's upcoming speech has parents on the conservative end of the political spectrum expressing some concern. Here are a couple of examples:

► On the blog Mommy Life, at mommylife.net, a parent shares a letter she sent to her local school board, in which she calls the speech "unprecedented access" to children, worries about "potential control over impressionable minds," and says the speech "smacks of propaganda and Big Brotherism."

► The "H" bomb fell at the online Free Republic, where one post contended Obama is "recru

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